This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The man who allegedly highjacked an egypt air jet is now in custody in cypress. There were 55 onboard when the plane was taken off its course from alexandria to cairo. All having released, apparently unharmed. Officials say the situation is over. The highjacker initially claimed to be wearing a suicide belted, but Authorities Say it was a fake. No explosives were found onboard. Now officials are questioning the man. The motive does not appear to be terrorism. Hours after the crisis began, the final few hostages are seen exiting the highjacked plane. One dramatically escaped through the cockpit window. Everybody else used the mobile stairs. They were escorted or thear mack by police. The highjacker is believed to be among them. Egypts minister of Civil Aviation announced the revolution. All the passengers along with the crew were released. They are now safe and sound. This is what we worked on at any cost from the very
And eliminate those behind the suicide bombing in lahor targeting christians and left 70 dead. Convicting i. S. I. L, the Syrian Government says it will use the recently recaptured city of palmyra as a launch pad, as experts assess the damage to the unesco World Heritage site. New rules go into effect in japan that will allow soldiers to fight overseas for First Time Since whoorlt. World war ii. Good evening im antonio mora. This is al jazeera Americas International news hour. We begin tonight in brussels where for the first time officials had released Surveillance Video from the airport of the two attackers and the third man who was with them. The video prominently shows the socalled man in the hat. Authorities say he is still on the run. Police thought they had arrested him but released that suspect today because of a lack of evidence. Also, the list of fatalities has grown tonight. Four more victims of the attacks died from their injuries. The death toll now stands at 35. And friend
Carolina. The Justice Department says the f. B. I. Has managed to unlock an iphone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino attackers without any help from apple. Investigators are analyzing the data inside. As a result, the doj said it is dropping the legalffort against apple. Apple had been fighting an order to unlock the phone. Jacob ward has more from San Francisco. Reporter antonio, its strange to see something fought as bitter lee as this battle end in this way. The Justice Department says it does not need apples help any longer. In the early reporting about the possibility that they had found an outside solution to this problem, both the timing of the release and the way that they had talked about had many observers suggesting this was some sort of thirdparty contractor that the justice had employed to do this kind of work. May be who solved this problem. Observers are suggesting it was probably some sort of copying of the contents of the phone off of the phone and then recopy
Sequences. Does he have does he have could be. The Justice Department has ended its legal battle to force apple to unlock an iphone beginning to one of the san bernardinos phones. It says it has unlocked the phone and is analyzing the information inside. Jacob live for us in san francisco. This has been a long, hard fit. How did the government finally, unlock the phone . Reporter its not clear what method they used. Many are pointing at a probable rewriting of a flash memory on a copying of its memory off of the phone and then recopying back on whenever you need to once you get to a number of unlock attacks. Thats what unlocked locked them out. If its too many times. Like loading a saved game right at the point where the game is hardest getting back to the first part of the donkey kong level. They think thats what if it is. The timing, they had looked at a third party solution. It came on a sunday. Led a lot of observers to think this might have been a defendant contract with some sort
On the mediterranean island nation of cyprus. That is where an airliner was forced to land after a man highjacked the plane. Welcome to your world this morning most of the 55 passengers on board have been released, but the hijacker and several others are still on board. Flight 181 was en route to cairo, and then diverted to cyprus. The incident is not terrorism related, it is personal. Our correspondent is in greece with the latest. Reporter we heard the egyptian minister not really divulge of information. He said 55 passengers were on board. He said seven people are still in that plane, four of them crew members, the pilot, copilot, stewardess, air marshall. We refused to disclose the identity of the hijacker earlier today. There were reports that the man behind the hijacking is an egyptian national. The egyptian minister refused to confirm if it is him. There are reports circulating that the man could be another. A lot of misinformation. The biggest question that the egyptian authori